Bush announced that he and Russian President Vladimir Putin (POO’-tihn) would sign a treaty to shrink their countries’ nuclear arsenals by two-thirds. Blackmun Breyer went on to win Senate confirmation. Supreme Court to replace retiring Justice Harry A. In 1994, President Bill Clinton nominated federal appeals Judge Stephen G. In 1985, a confrontation between Philadelphia authorities and the radical group MOVE ended as police dropped a bomb onto the group’s row house, igniting a fire that killed 11 people and destroyed 61 homes. (Billie Jean King soundly defeated Riggs at the Houston Astrodome in September.) In 1973, in tennis’ first so-called “Battle of the Sexes,” Bobby Riggs defeated Margaret Court 6-2, 6-1 in Ramona, California.
In 1972, 118 people died after fire broke out at the Sennichi Department Store in Osaka, Japan. In 1940, in his first speech as British prime minister, Winston Churchill told Parliament, “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.” In 1917, three shepherd children reported seeing a vision of the Virgin Mary near Fatima, Portugal it was the first of six such apparitions that the children claimed to have witnessed.
In 1914, heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis was born in Lafayette, Alabama. In 1607, English colonists arrived by ship at the site of what became the Jamestown settlement in Virginia (the colonists went ashore the next day). Peter’s Square by Turkish assailant Mehmet Ali Agca (MEH’-met AH’-lee AH’-juh). On May 13, 1981, Pope John Paul II was shot and seriously wounded in St.
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